Colin Kaepernick, Tatted Up Freak

[Versatile]

I think Amy Poehler is much hotter now. And I'm closer to 27 than 41.

 

[LongTimeListener]

his last tattoo -- a large piece on his back, a kind of pin-up of his wife --

She must be on him every day to stay in shape.

 

[YGBFKM]

This thread is all over the place, so on a related note to the latest tangent, I recently started watching 30 Rock reruns and Tina Fey is forking hilarious. Alec Baldwin, psycho that he is, is the perfect comedic foil. This threadjack message brought to you by five years ago. Carry on.

 

[YGBFKM]

his last tattoo -- a large piece on his back, a kind of pin-up of his wife --

She must be on him every day to stay in shape.

Or he must be on her every day to stay in shape.

 

[dooley_womack1]

While there will be tons of people 20-30 years from now who will be 50-60 and wonder what the heck they were thinking back in the day, it is laughably out of touch for Whitley to say only inmates and their ilk wear tats. But in reality, those percentages of tattoo-bearing that TSP cited will never come close to being reached among lawyers, CEOs, doctors and politicians. Of course, that doesn't mean these people can't be dysfunctional as heck sans tats, but still, in a competitive world, more thought should probably be put into that flower that can partly be seen in an unbuttoned blouse or that dagger with drops of blood on the forearm. Is what it signifies, or, let's be honest about many if not most cases, the expression of the id, worth it in the long run? Of course there are exceptions, but still..

 

[YGBFKM]

Tattoed people were born that way, you intolerant biscuit.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[Van Lingle Mungo]

I was writing it off as a "new generation confuses old generation" column, until he positioned Jerry Richardson as some sort of hero:

It's not just a white thing, I hope. When the Panthers interviewed Cam Newton, owner Jerry Richardson popped the question.

"Do you have any tattoos?" he asked.

"No, sir," Newton said. "I don't have any."

"We want to keep it that way," Richardson said.

He was OK with body art on other players, including the human canvas that is Jeremy Shockey. But Newton would be the face, arms and legs of the franchise. The boss didn't want them covered in ink lines.

"Let's keep it that way," he told Newton.

This whole exchange feels like it's straight out of the 1950s.

 

[LongTimeListener]

The guy who ran Denny's when it was at its most racist is stuck in the old days? Go figure.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I'd never get a tattoo. I don't feel strongly enough about anything to get a bumper sticker, let alone get it stenciled on my arm.

But I honestly don't care if other people want to paint themselves up like a New York City subway car in the 1970s. Go for it, Queequeg.

However, I think we can all agree that if you get a tattoo anywhere that can't be covered up with a long-sleeve shirt and long pants, you're limiting your job prospects.

 

[Azrael]

'Tattoos are for sailors.'

- everyone everywhere, 1940

 

[Versatile]

However, I think we can all agree that if you get a tattoo anywhere that can't be covered up with a long-sleeve shirt and long pants, you're limiting your job prospects.

I think there's a cycle. Tattoos rub close-minded people the wrong way. Smart people know others are close-minded and plan ahead for that. So even someone without objections to tattoos would devalue the intelligence of someone who had one that could not be covered up normally. So your job prospects are limited not because you have a tattoo but because you didn't plan for close-minded people in a world full of them, which would make anyone question taking you seriously.

So we let close-minded assholes define societal values.